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                                           wings produced in a fruit fly as a result of labora-
                                           tory-engineered mutations as the greatest evidence
                                           that mutations could lead to evolution. But the two
                                           wings in question actually damage the creature

                                           rather than benefiting it, leading to its losing the
                                           ability to fly. The University of California at Berkeley
        Mutations are dislocations, breaks and impair-  molecular biologist Jonathan Wells summarizes
       ments as a result of radiation or chemical effects  the position as follows:
       in the DNA molecule in the nucleus of the living  In the 1970s, Cal Tech geneticist Edward B. Lewis
       cell which carries all the information about a human  discovered that by carefully breeding three mutant
       being. The information in DNA is set out by 4 se-  strains he was able to produce a fruit fly in which
       parate nucleotides, symbolized by the letters A, T,  the balancers were transformed into a second
       C and G, laid out in a special and significant se-  pair of normal-looking wings.
       quence. But an error in a single letter in that se-  At first glance, this might seem to provide evidence
       quence will damage the entire structure. For exam-  for Carroll's claim that small developmental changes
       ple, the leukemia observed in children appears  in regulatory DNA can produce large evolutionary
       because one of the nucleotide sequences in the  changes in form. But the fruit fly is still a fruit fly.
       DNA is incorrect. The reason for diseases such as  Furthermore, although the second pair of wings
       cancer appearing or subsequent generations being  looks normal, it has no flight muscles. A four-
       deformed as a result of the radiation leakage at  winged fruit fly is like an airplane with a second
       Chernobyl, or the atom bomb dropped over Hiros-  pair of wings dangling uselessly from its tail. It
       hima, is again because of the harmful effects of  has great difficulty flying or mating, so it can
       mutations occurring in people's bodies.   survive only in the laboratory. As evidence for
        Almost all mutations are harmful, and they are  evolution, a four-winged fruit fly is no better than
       generally lethal to living things. Examples of muta-  a two-headed calf in a circus sideshow. 2
       tions that are not harmful generally do the organism  Jonathan Wells continues:
       no good, and are at best neutral. Scientists have  Disabled fruit flies with extra wings or missing
       concluded that not a single mutation, out of all  legs have taught us something about developmental
       those that have been studied, has ever had a po-  genetics, but nothing about evolution. All of the
       sitive effect on the life of an organism. 1  evidence points to one conclusion: no matter what
        But the theory of evolution is based on these  we do to a fruit fly embryo, there are only three
       fictitious mutations that supposedly produce "new"  possible outcomes – a normal fruit fly, a defective
       living things and work miracles. Darwinists maintain  fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Not even a horsefly,
       that species emerge from one another through  much less a horse. 3
       structures and organs appearing as a result of co-  As we have seen, the four-winged mutant fruit
       untless fictitious and beneficial mutations. This  fly that is the only evidence that Darwinists point
       claim, which is a source of terrible shame for Dar-
                                           to in support of their warped claims is in fact
       winists, is put forward by Darwinist scientists who  nothing more than a disabled fruit fly. No matter
       know that mutations always harm an organism.  what effect mutations may have on a life form,
       Furthermore, Darwinists are well aware of these  they do not possess the miraculous property of
       harmful effects of mutations yet they still point to a  bestowing a characteristic belonging to another
       mutant, four-winged fruit fly. The four-winged fruit
                                           life form onto it. But Darwinists want people to be-
       fly emerged as a result of being subjected to ra-  lieve the lie that miracles occur in living things by
            diation in the laboratory. Darwinists use  way of mutations.
               this example in support of their claims.  The interesting thing is that although Darwinist
               Darwinists portrayed the extra pair of  scientists know that the fruit fly in question is de-
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